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FieldsportsChannel's Podcast
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Aaron Jones presents a look behind the scenes at Fieldsports Channel - a gentle chat - shooting the breeze with the likes of Andy Crow, Roy Lupton, Paul Childerley, David Wright and Charlie Jacoby.
Episodes
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Trophy hunting filmmaker Sarah Roberts
Sarah Roberts is an environmental journalist and biologist with 15 years' experience in conservation, known for the Netflix documentary All the Sharks and co-hosting a podcast with Steve Backshall. She comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair theatre 2026 to talk with Charlie Jacoby about her…
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Daily Telegraph environment correspondent Patrick Galbraith
Daily Telegraph environment correspondent Patrick Galbraith comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair theatre 2026 to talk with Charlie Jacoby about the rural news agenda - what makes the front pages and what's not even a crossword clue these days. For more ways to listen, go to...
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How the BBC got it wrong with pheasants
The BBC's scriptwriters gave Sir David Attenborough duff information on pheasants. The BBC's 2026 wildlife series Secret Garden claimed pheasants eat vast numbers of insects, reptiles and amphibians every day, with no evidence to back it up. The reverse is true. Best-practice gamebird releasing...
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How one council voted for hunting
Warwickshire county councillor Scott Cameron (Restore Britain) successfully introduced, saw off opposition from the antis and had passed a motion supporting gamekeepers and farmers in the county. He came to the 2026 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to explain to Charlie how he did it. For more ways...
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How to fend off DEFRA
Three more years. The Labour Government, with its massive majority, has until August 2029 to rebuild its relationship with the British countryside. Trailhunting bans, family farm tax, and Islington animal rights agends: we look at what it is likely to do and what we can do to fight back. Panel is...
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Inside story: BASC's legal victory against Natural England
BASC's top team discuss their recent High Court victory against Natural England and how their Fighting Fund can lead the battle for shooting. Chief executive Ian Bell and chairman Eoghan Cameron come to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2026 to say what a battle it was. For more ways to listen…
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How Burnham rebuilds his relations with the countryside
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP spells out how PM Andy Burnham should approach his dealings with the British countryside. He and BASC lobbyist Orlando Wind-Cowie are speaking to Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July. It's the inaugural Christopher Graffius memorial debate, in memory...
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What will Burnham do to the English countryside?
Tim Bonner from the Countryside Alliance sets out his hopes and fears for the next three years of Labour rule over the English countryside. After the chaos of the Starmer premiership, what does rural England have to loo forward to? He talks to Charlie Jacoby in the 2026 Carter Jonas Game Fair...
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2026 grouse prospects
With the Gloirus Twelftth just around the corner, the GWCT gives its verdict on what the 2026 grouse-shooting season will be like. Speaking at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, GWCT director of Scotland Nick Hesford, senior advisor Scotland Felix Meister and upland ecologist Leah Cloonan talk...
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Peak District wildfire fight
Richard Bailey from the Peak District Moorland Group calls the wildfires burning across Derbyshire a 'fire wave'. He speaks to Charlie Jacoby in the 2026 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre about what the Westminster government can do about it. Read and listen to the full story on Scribehound Find the...
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Uplands' bureaucratic fightback against DEFRA
Jo Pearson's job at the Moorland Association is to help upland estates fill out forms. These forms are applications for controlled burning licences from Natural England – and Jo knows that, if she fills out enough forms, DEFRA may get to hear about it, and may realise what a pointless exercise...
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Westminster wildfire policy madness
Nobody is in charge of preventing wildfires. That's the charge Andrew Gilruth of the Moorland Association levels against the Westminster government. Successive government failings mean the fires we see raging in the UK's uplands can be stopped months in advance, if only there were the political...
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Shadow DEFRA secretary supports hunting and shooting
Victoria Atkins MP and her front bench team come to the 2026 Game Fair to show Conservative support for shooting and hunting. The shadow DEFRA secretary speaks to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre about where the Labour government is going wrong – and how the Tories made...
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Wildlife filmmaker David Beach
David Beach is a wildlife filmmaker. He comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2025 to talk about the difficulties that hunting tourism has presenting its case as the best way for funding conservation worldwide.
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How to run a high-tech shoot
Counting wildlife stops the government banning shooting. Roger Draycott from the GWCT, Jodie Case from Perdix Wildlife Supplies and Schöffel Working Conservationist Award-winning gamekeeper Rupert Brewer from the Bisterne estate explain how it works for them, and how the PerdixPro system works....
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Nigel 'Mr Frostbite' Vardy re-learns to shoot
Nigel Vardy lost his fingers and his nose in an accident on Mt McKinley in 1999. Since then, he has refound his love of shooting – but re-learning to shoot has been a challenge. He tells his story. For more from Nigel, visit MrFrostbite.com For more ways to listen to this podcast, visit...
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Bill Blacker on the British gun trade
Doyen of the barrellers Bill Blacker is part of the beating heart of the British gun trade. He joines Charlie on the stage at the Carter Jones Game Fair Theatre to discuss his work and wider issues, such as how to cope with the forthcoming UK restrictions on lead shot. Visit BillBlacker.com
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Game Fair deerstalkers
Every year, José Souto and Paul Childerley bring a roe carcase to the Game Fair and show how they break it down. They come to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to tell Charlie about how and why, plus they launch into the lead ammo debate and how supermarkets sell venison. Find José on Instagram...
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How to bring back bears and wolves
What's it like reintroducing a large predator to the wild? One person with firsthand experience is Maria Davidson, who manages the large carnivore programme for Safari Club International. She comes from the Louisiana Department of Fish and Wildlife, which has an impressive track record...
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River Monsters' Jeremy Wade
River Monsters star Jeremy Wade comes to the 2025 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to talk to Charlie about rivers and fish. For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to https://fieldsportschannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast136
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Future of the upland gamekeeper
Retired professor Simon Denny comes to the 2025 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to talk to Charlie about the future for upland gamekeepers. Simon Denny's report is at MoorlandAssociation.org/post/new-report-highlights-gamekeepers-crucial-role-in-wildfire-prevention-and-moorland-conservation For…
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Waterloo Cup slipper
The last slipper at the Waterloo Cup came to the Carer Jonas Game Fair Theatre in 2025, 20 years after the last meeting at Altcar in Cheshire. Arron Atmore tells Charlie Jacoby how Tony Blair's hunting ban has failed the hare, and how coursing is still thriving and still conserving hares in both...
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How GBNews reports on shooting
News channel @GBNewsOnline sent reporter Jack Carson to the Game Fair in July 2025. While he was there, he came to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to talk to Charlie Jacoby about what in the countryside makes TV news.
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Niall Rowantree: what is 'trophy hunting' in the UK? – FieldsportsChannel podcast, episode 132
While Keir Starmer's government is keen to ban trophy hunting in other peoples countries, it has no views about the roughly 20,000 stag heads handed to grateful hunting tourists by paid stalkers in Scotland each year. Deer manager Niall Rowantree discusses the issues around 'trophy hunting' and…
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Is the Proficient Deer Stalking Certificate 1 for you?
Here is the story behind the PDS1. David Wright talks to the man who came up with it, Peter Jones – and asks the question: is the Proficient Deer Stalking Certificate 1 for you? You can find the PDS1 in our shop, priced at £395 For more ways to listen to this podcast, visit...
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BASC on the lead shot ban
Ian Bell and Terry Behan from BASC join Nick Levett-Scrivener from non-lead cartridge importer Shooting Star to discuss the Westminster government's plan to restrict lead cartridges. They join Charlie on stage at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2025. Click here for the latest from BASC on...
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Writer and critic Patrick Galbraith
Daily Telegraph environment correspondent Patrick Galbraith comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2025, two months before he takes up his job, to talk to Charlie about his latest book, Uncommon Ground. For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to...
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Women in Westminster
Iona Campbell, who set up Women Who Work in Fieldsports, and BASC vice chair Claire Sadler, who runs Women in Shooting, come to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2025 to explain their work to Charlie Jacoby. For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to...
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Science and trophy hunting
Professor Adam Hart talks to Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2025 about the threats facing hunting tourism and the scientific evidence that it is good for conservation. For more from Adam, visit https://x.com/adamhartscience For more ways to listen to this podcast,...
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Rewilder works with gamekeeper
Benedict Macdonald is the author of Rebirding and founder and director of Restore. He is working with Charles Whitbread's Southill Estate in Bedfordshire, which combines a mix of grey partridge shooting and arable. Benedict and Southill gamekeeper Paul Dunn explain how 'restoring' nature and...
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Neil Parish at the 2025 Game Fair
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre at the end of the three-day Game Fair at Ragley Hall, farmer and former MP Neil Parish comments on what we have learned from DEFRA, and what's coming up on the rural agenda. Click here for Neil's own podcast.
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The future of the GWCT
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, GWCT chairman Sir Jim Paice and new chief executive Nick von Westenholz set out their vision for the charity.
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DEFRA minister Daniel Zeichner at the 2025 Game Fair
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, DEFRA minister Daniel Zeichner defends the British government's record on the countryside, including the family farm tax, lead ammo ban, trophy imports, Countryside Stewardship schemes and whether he is in favour of nationalising...
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Greg Smith MP at the 2025 Game Fair
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, Greg Smith MP says how he spoke up for grouseshooting, even though his constituency is in Buckinghamshire. Plus he examines other threats to shooting sports.
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Robbie Moore MP at the 2025 Game Fair
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, Robbie Moore MP talks about how he and others disposed of the attempt by BBC TV's Chris Packham to force a ban on grouseshooting.
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Sir Geoffrey Clifton Brown MP at the 2025 Game Fair
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, Sir Geoffrey Clifton Brown MP explains the threats to shooting sports from the Labour government.
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James Martin, part 2, with Merlin Griffiths
TV chef James Martin and his friend, celebrity barman or 'mixologist' Merlin Griffiths, came to the Game Fair in 2024 – James to run the restaurant and Merlin to pour the drinks. They came and sat down with Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, where they talked about food, booze...
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James Martin, part 1
TV chef James Martin came to the Game Fair in 2024 to run the restaurant. He took time out to visit Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, where he talks about his life in cooking and the challenges facing game meat marketing. Click here for more ways to listen to this podcast.
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Sika deer are here to stay: Rory Putman and Niall Rowantree
Professor Rory Putman and deer expert Niall Rowantree discuss Scotland's next big deer problem: sika. The Scottish government has successfully wiped out large numbers of iconic Scottish red deer. In their place are coming a new, invasive species, Japanese sika. More a horde than a herd, our…
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How did animal rights extremists evolve?
Charlie's dad, Martin Jacoby, explains how the hunter-gatherers of 200,000 years ago slowly evolved into both sport hunters and animal rights activists. Find Martin's book on Amazon For more ways of listening to this podcast, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast116
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Gamekeepers Welfare Trust
Ian Grindy from the Gamekeepers Welfare Trust tells the story of the charity and explains why it is needed more than ever. He talks to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. For more from the GWT, visit TheGamekeepersWelfareTrust.com For more ways to listen to this podcast, go...
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Thermal drone deer counting
Ben Harrower from BH Wildlife Consultancy uses a thermal drone for a unique aerial view of how the six UK deer species populations, and our wild boar, are expanding and contracting across the UK. As part of our filming for A Year in the Life of Sika, Ben covers all aspects of his work from the...
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The story of the rabbit – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 110
They shot 5,000 rabbits in one day in Shropshire and 7,000 in one day at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. The rabbit has had a relatively short but dramatic history in the UK, from Roman food source through population explosions, and becoming one of the most prized quarry species of the great...
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Hunting Ethics by Nick Fox
Nick Fox has been working on this book all his life. The hunter, zoologist and falconer has brought out Hunting Ethics: A Personal Journey. In this podcast with Charlie Jacoby, he talks about different elements of the book, including why it is innate within us to hunt – and governments can't ban...
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Teresa Dent CBE from the GWCT
Teresa Dent CBE led the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust as chief executive for 22 years. In the spring of 2025, she retires. In July 2024, she came to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to talk about the trust's work, and the difficulty of producing science that politicians can use. For more...
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Country Food Trust
SJ Hunt runs the Country Food Trust, a charity that delivers game, venison, poultry and vegetarian meals to food banks and the homeless. It is the major market for pheasants, partridges and deer carcases. Talking to Charlie Jacoby at the 2024 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, she explains how it...
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Value of shooting
BASC chief executive Ian Bell explains the new Value of Shooting report , which shows how vital the sport is to rural economies. He is talking to Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. Click here for more about the report For more ways to listen to this podcast go to...
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Eat Wild's Louisa Clutterbuck
Louisa Clutterbuck from the game meat marketing agency Eat Wild explains her role, and how it fits in with other agencies such as Game To Eat and Eat Game. She talks to Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. (And she had the baby, a boy called Jasper). For more, go to Eat Wild's:...
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Greg Smith MP
Greg Smith MP says how to deal with the Labour government. Of course, he was talking to Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024, just after the general election, and much water has gone under the rural bridge since then – but his advice stands. To listen to the whole podcast, go to...
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Ferreter Simon Whitehead
Simon Whitehead has been a 'celebrity ferreter' all of his working life. He talks about the job to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. ▶ Find Simon on Instagram, on YouTube or on his webpage ▶ For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to...
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Aaron Jones presents a look behind the scenes at Fieldsports Channel - a gentle chat - shooting the breeze with the likes of Andy Crow, Roy Lupton, Paul Childerley, David Wright and Charlie Jacoby.
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